linux-kernel - Re: Nokia N900: Broken lirc ir-rx51 driver

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:12:50 -0800
From:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
	Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
	Pavel Machel <pavel@....cz>, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
	Timo Kokkonen <timo.t.kokkonen@....fi>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nokia N900: Broken lirc ir-rx51 driver

* Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> [160105 02:19]:
> On Saturday 02 January 2016 09:06:57 Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >
> > Yup please take a look at thread "[PATCH 0/3] pwm: omap: Add PWM support
> > using dual-mode timers". Chances are we still need to set up the dmtimer
> > code to provide also irqchip functions. That way ir-rx51.c can just do
> > request_irq on the selected dmtimer for interrupts.
> 
> No I see that patch from that thread uses dmtimer.h from plat-omap. So
> it is really OK?

It's using the header to populate the platform data in mach-omap2 so
that's fine. But we do not want to directly expose the dmtimer functions
to device drivers as they are not Linux generic at this point.

Regards,

Tony
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